Continuing Medical Education

Welcome! This webpage contains information about CME for Community Health Network practitioners, including guidance on what counts as CME and resources needed to apply and plan for a CME program.

For questions about CME planning, please contact the CME office at 317-621-3845 or email Jeff Carter at jcarter3@eCommunity.com.

Our Mission

Community Health Network’s CME program strives to provide educational opportunities to enhance clinician knowledge, competence and performance through programming designed to address evolving patient needs and practice gaps to improve health outcomes for the patients we serve.

What Counts as CME?

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education defines CME as:

  • Education activities that serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of healthcare to the public.

A broad definition of CME, such as the one found above, recognizes these continuing educational activities as CME:

  • Educational activities that assist physicians in carrying out their professional responsibilities more effectively and efficiently.
    • A course in management would be appropriate CME for physicians responsible for managing a healthcare facility; a course in practice management would be appropriate CME for physician practitioners interested in providing better service to patients.

Not all continuing educational activities that physicians may engage in are CME:

  • Physicians may participate in worthwhile continuing education activities that are not related directly to their professional work, and these activities are not CME.
  • Continuing education activities that respond to a physician's non-professional educational need or interest, such as personal financial planning, appreciation of literature or music or parent effectiveness are not CME.

How To Apply for CME

  1. Submit the "CME Planning Document" (in Forms section) a minimum of 3 months prior to the activity to ensure compliance with ACCME and Community Health Network requirements.
  2. Complete the "Financial Disclosures" document - for speakers as well as everyone involved in the planning.
  3. The CME office will review the disclosures and mitigate any potential conflicts of interest.
  4. Speakers and presenters must provide slideshow to the CME office by the agreed upon date prior to the activity for review and record keeping.

Forms

Provider Transcripts

To receive a copy of your Community Health Network CME transcript, contact Jeff Carter at jcarter3@eCommunity.com. Records are held for six years and reflect your participation in Community Health Network CME accredited activities.